s worked in the past, "quite some,"
routing out tortured souls and bodies by the millions, sending them
flying off from this planet which was, and is their real home, turning
rack and screw, and setting baleful fires on tender flesh, threatening
further eternal hell fires; all for what? Why, to prove that "tweedle
dee," is greater than "tweedle dum," and this is the record of religion
at the hands of the theologians and the priests! This is the story of
accepted orthodox religion. Why, then, have a religion? Why not try
the altruism taught by the great Master in a system of ethics that can
never be superseded by one higher and more truth-inspiring, better
adapted to the perfect unfoldment of the human race?

No more of these awful persecutions, and massacres, and killings for
the "glory of God;" for the amusement of devils, really! Practical
common sense, and reason will surely be, in time, the salvation of this
world.

OF TEACHERS.

The wisest teacher is the one who shows the gradual processes of
unfoldment and growth in the mind and body, and in all the outworkings
of the material world. He who breaks down arbitrary distinctions in
every realm of life does the most toward liberating and enlightening
the world. We are from infancy so accustomed to petty distinctions
which have originated in ignorance, and from long use have been
formulated into laws, fixed and binding, that were some person
clear-sighted enough to the truth to show us our invisible bonds, and
how to sever them with the scalpel of common sense, and reason, we
would be amazed at our great freedom, and astonished to see the light
coming through thousands of loopholes and windows of the mind which are
now closed by an accumulation of dust and cobwebs of the petty
superstitions of ages.

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Millions of beings are born so starved that no after nourishing can
make up for it.

WISE USE OF MONEY.

The money that has been spent in building up blasphemous theologies
would have rid the whole world of poverty, and ignorance, if it had
been beneficently employed with the kind intention of doing the peoples
of the earth good, in every way, instead of trying to fix upon them
damnation now, and also arrange for it in their life hereafter.

Here and there, scattered along the way, are souls who have escaped the
"drag-net" of theology, but there are at this present moment great
spirits that, even after havi